MeerKAT polarisation workshop

Date: 14-18 July 2025

Location: Bologna (Italy), INAF IRA

Participants: Benjamin Hugo (invited), Aritra Basu (invited), Francesco de Gasperin (SOC), Annalisa Bonafede (SOC), Shubham Bhagat, Chiara Stuardi, Angelina Spasic, Thomas Pasini, Alessandro Benati, Matteo Cianfaglione, Annalisa Pagliotta, Marco Balboni, Gabriella Di Gennaro, Emanuele De Rubeis, Rosita Paladino, Virginia Cuciti, Luca Bruno

Program:

Monday 14
10:00-12:30 - B. Hugo “Polarisation with MeerKAT” + questions, discussion, and examples
Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19gxtpUHcz4zW-rf02MNJOBQCBioGnmqV8usCSK8b9gU/edit?usp=sharing
13:30-17:30 - Hands on (preparation of the data)

Tuesday 15
10:00-12:30 - A. Basu “Data reduction of MeerKAT polarised data” + questions, discussion, and examples
13:30-17:30 - Hands on

Wednesday 16
10:00-12:30 - A. Bonafede “CaraCAL” + questions, discussion, and examples
13:30-17:30 - Hands on
19:30 - Conference Dinner

Thursday 17
10:00-12:30 - Hands on
13:30-17:30 - Hands on

Friday 18
10:00-11:30 - B. Hugo "Stimela primer"
Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1r2-Z4zPk0iIOreqq2P7WGDBfjpOIboCB0n1P9rTPr0Y/edit?usp=sharing
Example pack: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dGvSq4yG7oFLd1eyR-ivgHAfLWGRfxSy/view?usp=sharing
13:30-17:30 - Hands on

LOFAR LBA Busy Week 2025

This is a busy week aimed at preparing the data reduction code used to calibrate LOFAR LBA data.
A focus of the busy week is to enable the data reduction for the LOFAR 2.0 upgrade and plan the commissioning.

Date: 20-24 October 2025 / every day 9:00 - 17:00 - room 606

Participants:  Francesco De Gasperin, Henrik Edler, Alexander Drabent, Christian Groeneveld, Cristina Cordun, Jort Boxelaar, Thomas Pasini

Code repository: https://github.com/revoltek/LiLF

LOFAR LBA Busy Week 2024

This is a busy week aimed at preparing the data reduction code used to calibrate LOFAR LBA data.
A focus of the busy week is to enable the data reduction for the LOFAR 2.0 upgrade and plan the commissioning.

Date: 28-1 November 2024 / every day 9:00 - 17:00 - room 606

Participants:  Francesco De Gasperin, Henrik Edler, Alexander Drabent, Christian Groeneveld, Cristina Cordun, Jort Boxelaar, Thomas Pasini

Code repository: https://github.com/revoltek/LiLF